All Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
- Besides, rereading, not reading, is what counts. Besides
- To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. To glorify the… Acts
- Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past. Accomplished
- Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told us something that… Aesthetic
- Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels. Angel
- A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have… All
- I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat. Bribe
- We have shared out, like thieves, the amazing treasures of days and nights. Amazing
- Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it; with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee… Anticipation
- Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds,… All
- I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government. Believe
- Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we… Allow
- When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first… Age
- I...have always known that my destiny was, above all, a literary destiny — that bad things and some good things would happen to me, but… All
- A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is even… Accept
- You can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is… All
- Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on me and treating me badly. Always Playing
- Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless… Air
- Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger. Devours
- Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they… Aesthetic
- In vain have oceans been squandered on you, in vain the sun, wonderfully seen through Whitman’s eyes. You have used up the years and they… Been
- We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I don't think anything… Ago
- Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time. Life
- In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others. All
- His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further. Abbreviate